Claude/Desktop/Q/How can I disable notifications for Claude Desktop?
How can I disable notifications for Claude/Desktop?
- Short answer: Claude/Desktop has no documented in-app toggle for its OS notifications — turn them off the same way you'd turn off any desktop app's notifications, through the operating system.
- Answer/Official from Desktop application docs: "The desktop app sends an OS notification when a Code session finishes a task and you aren't currently viewing that session." Anthropic's docs describe when the notification fires but don't document a Settings toggle inside the app to suppress it.
- macOS: System Settings → Notifications → Claude → toggle off Allow Notifications (or set the alert style to None).
- Windows: Settings → System → Notifications → Claude → toggle off.
- Distinct setting — mobile push, not Desktop OS notifications: when Claude/Code Remote Control is connected, Claude can also send proactive push notifications to your phone. That's a separate toggle:
/config → Push when Claude decides (agentPushNotifEnabled in settings, default false). It only affects phone push, not the Desktop app's own OS notification banners.